The CUA Innocence Project Clinic & Clemency Project conducts investigations of claims of actual innocence on behalf of individuals referred to the Clinic by the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project and assists individuals convicted in Maryland with applications for parole or commutation of sentence.

Supervised by Professor Sandy Ogilvy, Catholic University's Innocence Project Clinic offers students the opportunity to develop a wide range of lawyering skills, while providing direct assistance to inmates who have been convicted of violent crimes and sentenced to long jail sentences or to death, but who assert that they are actually innocent of the crimes for which they have been convicted. The Clemency Project expands the work on behalf of individuals seeking release from prison in the form of a commutation of sentence or parole.

The Clemency Project is part of a broader initiative, the CUA Law/Ehrlich Partnership on Clemency. In 2013, the Law School partnered with former Maryland Governor Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr., to work together to educate governors and their staffs across the country who want to engage more deeply with the issue of executive clemency and to support scholarship and public education regarding executive clemency at the state and federal levels.